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12 THE SOUTHERN WORLD, MARCH 1, 1882, expression of sympathy—these are as neces sary to healthy and happy child-life as sum mer showers to the vines. Esi>ecially bear tlds in mind—they should never go to bed cold, or hungry, or unhappy. Let them have plenty of healthy and palatable food, at regular hours. Small children should have a slice of bread and butter, or an apple, or some simple “bite," half way between meals, and nothing more in the way of lunches. It is the constant nibbling and “piecing” that does harm. Never force a child to eat any thing lie has a real dislike for. When plain food is declined because of the more tempt ing dessert abend, it is u different atfuir; but J have seen little children compelled to eat anything, when every mouthful was swal lowed with tremendous effort and genuine disgust. Some of ns liuve an utter ablior- once of onions or tomutoes, or codfish, or some article of food that ought to he relish ed. How would we like to have some m'.gli- ty giant put such food on our plates, and compel us to cat it amid wild flourishes of his knotted club ? Would we sweetly feel that the dear giant knew what was best for us, and proceed to swallow every mouthful ? or would we say to ourselves,“we’ll eat it be cause we must, but we hate it all the same, and we hate you, too!” Children hove as much right to their likes and dislikes as we have to ours. 1IOITNEIIOI.I) RECIFE*. Lima Beans.—Put a pint of shelled beans in boiling, salted water, enough to cover. Cook until tender, then drain them. Melt a piece of butter the size of an egg, and mix i an even teaspoonful of flour with it; add a little meat liruth to make a smooth sauce, or use water instead. Put the beans in the sauce and set them at the side of file fire fur fifteen minutes. Just before serving add a tablcspoonful of chopped parsley, and season to tuste witli suit and pepper. Steweii Onions.—Peel the onions and boil them in salted water with a little milk, until they are perfectly tender, then drain and put them into a white sauce to simmer for ten minutes before serving. Baked Onions.—Boil in milk and water until just done, then drain and place the onions in a buttered baking-pan. Put a bit of butter and some pepper and saltovereach one, and add a little of the water in which they were boiled. Brown them quickly on the grating of the oven and serve hot. Salad op Vegetables.—A very nice salad may he made by mixing a variety of cold boiled vegetables together. Asparagus, cauli flower, string beans, beets, carrots, turnips and peus may be used. These vegetables of different colors look well, but one can use whatever is most convenient. Supposing that the salad is to be made of currots, tur nips and peas, boil a pint of peas in salted water until tender, then lny them in cold water. Pare a enrrot and a white turnip and cut them into uniform pieces; boil them in separate waters und lay in cold water until needed. Just beforu serving, arrange the vegetables neatly on a small platter, con trasting the colors well, and pour over them a French salad dressing. Fkknch Sai.au Dukssing.-Mix a salt spoon ful of white pepper with two of salt and a teaspoonful of scraped onion. Add three tablespoonfuls of salad oil, and when well mixed, stir a tablespoonful of vinegar. Pour tlie dressing over the salad just before serv ing. String beans, alone, muku a nice salad, and cauliflower with a mayonnaise sauce is excellent. Cold baked navy beans are im proved by u similar dressing, und cold boiled jiotutoes with beets, onions and this sauce, is a disii that seldom goes begging. Cold boiled potutoes with limn beans and beets,ure good in a salad witli French dressing. The proi>ortlon of oil nnd vinegar can of course be varied to suit individual taste. Mayonnaise Bauce.—Beat the yolk of a raw egg with a saltspoonful of |>owdercd mustard, then add, drop by drop, the very , best of salad oil, and stirconstuntly until the mixture becomes thick and glossy. Add a ■ scant teusnoonful of good cider vinegar, or instead of it a little lemon juice. FANIIION NOTES. Three or four yards of creamy white trim ming lace will make a pretty garniture for a black basque. One of the most showy laces used for up turned cuffs and “Mother Hubbard” collars, is Irish point, in bold, distinct patterns. Square 'kerchiefs und fichus are now made . of net, edged with lace to correspond, in stead of being purt^muslin or India mull. There is just now a rage for beaded nets and laces in black, white, cream and cardi nal and other colors are sometimes used. A pair of sleeves and a collarette, in beaded tulle, changes a plain silk dress into a pretty and stylish evening toilet. Large Alsatian bows of moire silk are now worn ujion the head by young and elderly ladies, the latter choosing black alone. Thouoii fashion inclines toward elegant simplicity, ladies, in remodeling old dresses, need not be afraid to decorate; quantities of shirring, arranged very much as the wearer fancies, scarf-draperies, all-in-one trimmed skirts—all these fashion accepts. Among the new materials for dress goods, shown for spring wear, is a cotton material called satinet. It 1ms a closely twilled sur face, and is found in the most exquisite floral designs as well as in solid colors. This satinet can scarcely be distinguished from foulard, ns it is silky to the touch. Scotch ginghams bid fair to be as popular the coming season as they were last summer; they are found in eveu stripes, small checks and uneven plaids. Some of the colors are clear blue with white, or two shades of blue, Notwithstanding the frequent rumors that black costumes for the street are going out of fashion, they still remuiti not only a safe choice, but a stylish one; in spite of all dark greenish brown, green, olive and black with white. temptation to adopt the bright colors, black will doubtless long continue to lie the favor ite street dress, in this country at least. One of the most stylish and becoming col lars of the period is so simple in construc tion that it can be made at home. The foundation is a binding of mull about an incli in width and long enough to reach around the neck, a piece of tulle, cut the shape and size desired—about four inches in the back and rounded off in front—which piece of tulle is covered with pleatings of lace, two, three or more, according to the depth of the collar. A very full, double pleating of lace should stand up above the binding. The binding should be covered with satin ribbon, widtc or colored, passed under an insertion of lace. The best designs for making suits of soft flannel for early spring dresses is to finish tlie bottom of the back and side breadths with a pleated trimming or flounce, either pleat or tuck the front breadth until it reaches the punier scarf-drapery, which should be very short in front and long be hind. If tucked, the tucks should be about an inch wide, with a half-inch space be tween. Tlie hunting jacket, described in a previ ous number, will bo worn with those suits. Quiet weddings are rapidly gaining in favor, and even the bridal tour is no longer obligatory. It is not considered proper for the bride elect to bo scon by her friends after the wedding invitations are out. After the ceremony the newly married i>uir fre quently go directly to their new home. As soon as the young people go to housekeeping, they generally issue a few “at home” cards, and thereby open the door for future hospi talities. At a recent wedding in church the bridesmaids carried, instead of tlie customa ry boquets, ivory-bound prayer-books, the gifts of the bridegroom. Tbo FctUM ArboreiiH. The Fetus Arboreus is found growing a- long the precipitous banks of the river On- da, in Central Africa. When seen from a distance by the traveler, these trees, rising in groups along the horizon, present the ap pearance of palm trees. They have, as will be seen by tlie illustration, high, straight, conical trunks, from the tops of which fern like fronds spread out in every direction. This tree is but one of the many rnre tropicul growths found in that remarkable land. Aniunin, or Horned Screamer. Tlie Screamers (Palamedcidae) found in all the larger swamps of South America, are large, beavy-bodied birds with long necks, small heads, and beaks not unlike those of chickens, pressed together towards the top and hooked at tlie end. Their feet are short and thick, protected by moderately long, pointed nails, slightly curved; the outer and middle toes being joined by a membrane. Tlie wings are comparatively long and power ful, and the rounded tail has twelve feathers, the plumage being very abundant. Like some other web-footed birds they have be neath tlie skin a network of air cells and bladders which can be Ailed and emptied at pleasure. These birds are usually found in small flocks; they are quite peaceful in disposition. In walking they carry themselves proudly and with dignity, and in flying they look like birds of prey, resembling more especi ally tlie vulture. They seem to be unable to swim. The food of tlie Screamer consists chiefly of vegetable substances, although it it will hardly refuse insects and little fish. These birds make a large nest in the midst of the swamps, deposit two unspotted eggs in it, and take tlie young off with them ns soon as hatched. When caught young they soon grow accustomed to captivity and gain the respect and obedience of the rest of the poul try. People are fond of keeping them on the farms in South America, but they are seldom sent alive to Europe. The liom, the left wing spur, and after it the right spur are thought by tlie Indiuns to possess great curative properties. One of the threekinds of which thisfamily consists is the Aniuma or Anihumn of the Brazilians, the Horned Screamer, ( v alame- dea comula.) It is found in tlie forests of central Brazil, also in Guiana and Columbia. The horn on the forehead is fastened simply to the skin, its base being only about tliree- flfths of an ineh from the base of the back; it is thin, arches forward, fouror five inches long, one-tenth of an inch in diameter at the root and might well be compared to a violin string. There are two spurs on the wings, tlie upper one being three cornered, very pointed and perhaps three inches long, and is almost imperceptibly bent out-wards. The second and lower spur is only three- tenths of an inch long and almost straight but is nevertheless quite powerful. The soft, velvet-like feathers of the upper head are whitish gray, towards the imint they are black; the feathers of the cheek, throat, neck, back, breast, wings and tail are dark brown, those on the wings and should ers having a greenish metalic lustre. The plumage on the lower part of the neck and the upper part of the breast is a clear silver gray broadly edged witli black, that on tlie belly is white. The eye is orange color, the back dark brown, whitish at tlio tip, tlie horns whitish gray and tlie feet slate-gray. The length is 31 inches, breadtli 70 inches; length of wing 22 inches, and the tail 11 in ches. The Prince Von Wied, says: “ Tlie Anihn- ma, a large, beautiful bird, forms an ornn- mentof the Brazilian forests. Itdid not ap pear to me until In traveling from North to to South on the river Belmonte, I had reacli- the sixteenth degree south latitude. Here they are numerous, they live remote from men’s dwellings. I have only met them in the high forests on the banks of the rivers. Here we heard frequently the clear peculiar voice of the Anihunia, whicli has a similar ity to that of our wild ring-dove, but is fnr clearer and is accompanied by some other throat tones. Sometimes wo saw the birds as they walked along the sand-banks or in the rivers; but if we drew near they flew up, and always settled on the top of a thick- leafed forest tree whence their voices could bo often heard, though we could seldom see them. The beautiful large wing feathers are used for writing, and those of tlie tail by tlie savages for tbelr pipes. There is a super- stitution that the biitl dips its horn into the water every time before ft drinks.” THE FETUS ARBOREUS. THE HORNED SCREAMER.